A Boring Dystopia

Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You're literally paying for every ad it shows you.

That thing would already have a broken cracked screen if that was mine and it started displaying ads.

What a fucking dystopia

Now you know to think twice before buying Samsung anything

i think eventually we're gonna have to deal with the reality that audio/video advertising needs to be outlawed. keep it in print if necessary.

Wow. Not even a tasteful design, just turning the fridge into a full fledged highway billboard. Disgusting.

Please stop buying these & they will stop making them.

Appliance repair man here. You can turn the screen off from a cover you remove from the top of the fridge door. Do so. You don't need a fucking android tablet on your fridge.

Also don't buy these kinds of appliances. They're terrible!

Samsung appliances used to be durable.

I had a Samsung washing machine for about two decades. We deciced to replace it with another Samsung, it already has a big crack in the plastic after a year of use and the top is all scratched just by dragging the clothes out.

Kill it with fire.

Disconnect it from the Internet for starters. Why else would a company want to sell you a fridge with a screen?

Your first mistake was buying anything Samsung.

Why does a fridge need a screen to begin with?

The best part about this is it’s an ad for Pluribus where, without spoiling anything, a message like that on a fridge would absolutely work in the show.

by the way the fridge cost 1800$

Wait why the fuck would a fridge be connected to the internet?

Edit: where I come from we don't have unlimited internet plans so this would just be taking up expensive bandwidth and monthly quota.

Oh no, who could have ever seen that coming?

Now wait for the subscription service to get rid of ads on the fridge you bought and "own". Oh, and that neat thing they do with cars now where you have to subscribe to get certain feature? That's also next. "Only ~~5$~~ ~~10$~~ 20$ per month to keep your fridge cool enough so the milk won't spoil! It's not a normal function of the fridge, it's our super special anti-bacterial option that costs extra.

Fridge with ads should be 1/3 the price with free repairs

I'm ready to move to a commune. But like.... not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn't fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.

Its like "the village" for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.

Can't wait to see this come to the dash boards of modern cars. Oh? You're trying to reverse and make use of your rear-view camera? Watch this 2 minute unskippable ad first.

There's a pretty simple hack for this, actually…

Is it AI powered too?

Thank god fridges have ads now. I have been so unhappy not knowing what to purchase every day of my life. Now my fridge can tell me all the things I should purchase to fill up my home and go so deep into debt that I will be homeless. Thanks Samsung, I was too stupid to do this without you. . . . /s

What is the purpose of a screen on a fridge? Is this common (without the ads)?

If not, how would you not notice when you buy it. You'd need to be utterly oblivious.

Maybe they just have unnecessarily contrived fridges where this person is.

By 2030 everyone's kitchen will look like fucking Times Square

The stairs to your basement will look like the London Underground. We're going down the fucking tube... literally and metaphorically

Start watching

On what, the fucking fridge?

I have seen a video about this shit also being implemented in cars. You can drive down the highway, with your GPS on and a pop up ad appears out of the blue, blocking the screen, not really allowing you to get rid of it before you remove your attention from the road to the screen, trying to figure out what button to push to get rid of the ad.

And the fact that people pay extra for cars and fridges to show them ads is just so friggin stupid. If people buy these products after knowing that they pay extra to be bombarded with ads, its 100% on them.

But in the case of the car, I do feel that shit should be illegal. It's so fucking dangerous and irresponsible from the manufacturer to implement a "feature" that can cost lives.